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RE: normal aging

Posted by pbarach (A) on January 3, 2017 at 10:54:26

In Reply to: normal aging posted by slapshot on January 2, 2017 at 18:19:14:

I agree (I'm a psychologist in my early 60s). What is quite common at this age is that the names of people, movies, pieces of music come to mind later than recognition that this is something/someone we recognize.

Although human memory doesn't actually work like the following metaphor, I use the metaphor sometimes with people who think that this kind of memory problem is a sign of impending dementia:

Think of memory as a Rolodex. The older we get, the more cards we have in our Rolodex, and it takes longer to flip through them until we see the one we're looking for. Furthermore, some of the searching takes place while we are doing other things. Therefore, don't spend a lot of time trying to remember the name of something. Just do something else, and often the name you were looking for will pop into your conscious mind.

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